It acknowledges the narrative character of the first verse. Then we enter on the theatre and times of dispensations. "And he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib which Jehovah-Elohim had taken from man made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 4. "For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. - Genesis 1:27. We've never been able to disprove this. When Genesis 1:26 reveals that God made man in God's image, that means He gave man a will, emotion, and intelligence. But then, pretty soon, as the glue dries completely, it falls off and it has propagated itself. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. So we find, now, the crowning act of God's creation. And as we suggested last Thursday night, it is possible that He'll be the only handicapped person in there. The days that follow I see no ground for interpreting save in their simple and natural import. For God is not now first beginning to consider what form he will give to man, and with what endowments it would be fitting to adorn him, nor is he pausing as over a work of difficulty: but, just as we have before observed, that the creation of the world was distributed over six days, for our sake, to the end that our minds might the more easily be retained in the meditation of Gods works: so now, for the purpose of commending to our attention the dignity of our nature, he, in taking counsel concerning the creation of man, testifies that he is about to undertake something great and wonderful. said Jehovah. Does the image of God in man include his body? . If its language were that of modern science, people in former ages would not have understood it, and people in future ages would find it out of date. Needless to say, the divine image has been grossly eroded in many of Adam's rebellious and sinful children. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness " It is the kinship of humanity to God Himself that shines in this, a conception that is launched here and is never diminished until the God-Man Himself, "The Lamb standing as though it had been slain" (Revelation 5:6), is seen in the very midst of the throne of God! It remains yet to be seen whether he will be good in act and habit. This word involves "in germ" the doctrine of the Trinity. And here we find the solemn truth, that not only did Jehovah-Elohim cause to grow every tree that is pleasant and good for food, but "the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.". The name of God, not just being "Elohim" as it is in chapter one, but more personal because we are dealing with more the creation of man, and we are being given details of the creation of man in chapter two. The introductory declarations of Genesis are altogether in unison with the glory of God Himself, and with His character; more than that, they are in perfect harmony with itself. He is called "Jehovah;" He is not designated by the former mingled or compound term "Jehovah-Elohim," but by "Jehovah" simply; and this is found afterwards, either "Elohim" alone or "Jehovah in the other names of special character, as we shall see," until the call of Israel, when we have an appropriate modification in the expression of His name. On the second the water is distributed above and below the expanse; on the fifth the living natives of these regions are called into being. The word light in Hebrew is "or". A large inheritance: Replenish the earth; it is this that is bestowed upon the children of men. But, it doesn't seem to matter, cause a couple of weeks later, their kids take off and they fly right to Hawaii. whom did he say this? Finally, it has the singular and superlative merit of drawing the diurnal scenes of that creation to which our race owes its origin in the simple language of common life, and presenting each transcendent change as it would appear to an ordinary spectator standing on the earth. Now, if they would drop straight down under the pine tree, they would probably never survive very long because the mother pine would be taking too much of the nutrients from the soil. It was impossible that such a ground could be rightly taken longer; but so Cain did not feel. Genesis 1:27. Genesis 9:6; 1Corinthians 11:7; James 3:9.) Thus a peculiarity in scripture, when understood, is pregnant with truth, having its source in God's wisdom, not in human infirmity. JANUARY 11- DAILY READING THROUGH THE ONE YEAR BIBLE- GENESIS 24:52-26:16; MATTHEW 8:18-34; PSALM 10:1-15; PROVERBS 3:7-8 Commentary written and read by Pastor David K. MacAdam. Yet we still thank God, for we know that he is the provider of all things. Their effect upon the earth helped to produce a variety of weather and a pattern of annual seasons (14-19; fourth day).As Gods creative activity moved on, animal life began to appear, with creatures in the sea and creatures in the air, all of them suited to their environment (20-23; fifth day). The next chapter (Genesis 3:1-24) shows us the result of the test which we have seen laid down by Jehovah-Elohim. Where all was bright and good around man in innocency the scope for labour would not have its place. Some . So God is a superior trinity. Not only giving me the capacity of choice, He also respects the choice that I make. So having given me the capacity of choice, making me in His image, He has to then offer me an alternative, give me a choice to make; but then, He has to respect that choice that I have made.Part of the intricacy of self-determination; that image of God in which man was created. 3. Which would include the angels, for the angels are called the hosts of heaven.And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made (Gen 2:2). II. Those who enter on them had better be cautious, and well weigh alleged facts, and above all their own conclusions, or those of other men. We have had their failure under law; we look for their stability under Messiah and the new covenant. The beautiful type of creation belonging to Christ is thus admirably preserved. But "Elohim" is the plural tense for God. All evil is due to this as its spring; it begins with God as the object attacked or undermined. His quotation is from R. F. R. Gardener, Abortion: The Personal Dilemma. But there is not an object within the ken of man which he does not aim at making subservient to his purposes. And it is able to take out of the soil just the necessary chemicals to support that particular plant; able to tell the difference between the chemicals, knows just the chemicals that it needs out of the soil to feed the particular plant that it's coming from, to bring the moisture up out of the soil and all. #2 "Let us make". For as we have on the sixth day the lower creation for the earth, so finally man himself the crown of all. Man, the race, became simply outcasts morally nothing else from that day till after the flood. A man who despises him whom he is bound to honour, not to speak of the special distinction which God had shown him, must come to shame and degradation, must be not merely a servant but "a servant of servants." And thus, when the hurricane would blow, the coconut would fall off and fall into the water, and it would be carried because of the waterproof husk. Observe. Though the twins may have come from the same cell, divided and thus, they have the same chromosome content and gene content as each other, yet the variations that develop, I just am amazed at creation. What is important for us to know is what did God say. Infidelity takes increasingly an apostate form, and those that used to revere both Old Testament and New are abandoning the truth of God for the dreamy but mischievous romances of so-called modern science. He created him male and female, Adam and Eve--Adam first, out of earth, and Eve out of his side, Genesis 2:21-23; Genesis 2:21-23. The change of designation springs from distinct truths, not from different fabulists and a sorry compiler who could not even assimilate them. Do not be troubled if you cannot answer their questions and dispose of their cavils; you may regret it in charity for injured or misled souls. Thus holy, thus happy, were our first parents, in having the image of God upon them. Jehovah, meaning "the becoming one" as God relates to man and man's needs, and He becomes to man whatever man may need.Now it has caused some of the critics of the Bible to see Genesis not as the work of one Author, but the work of many authors. The whole creation was built by the Word of God from the mouth of God. And then you get into the priestly version of it. Such a glorious God, so wise; all of these created life forms. but as expressive of his honour and dignity; it being proposed he "And they (, a generic term for men) shall have dominion over the fish," etc. What are the ten numerations? , from , lit., a shadow, hence sketch, outline, differs no more from , likeness, portrait, copy, than the German words Umriss or Abriss (outline or sketch) from Bild or Abbild (likeness, copy). The world was living in harmony with God, and thus in harmony with each other.And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. Here then we only hear of pairs which enter. over fish and fowl signify, unless it be a power to feed upon If you are speaking in the intimacies of the family, you do not adopt the same language towards your parents, wife, child, or servant, still less towards a stranger outside. He appears most consistently and in season, when man's earth is about to be brought before us. This last is often misunderstood. A day in which we acknowledge the Creator; it's set apart for the recognition of the Creator, as He has so left such ample evidence of Himself in His creation.Now later on, as God calls a nation of people, a separate people to Himself, we will be, we will find Him giving them a law for the seventh day; a covenant between God and Israel forever. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Hence He orders that two of every kind should be taken into the ark. Centuries ago people thought that the sun moved round the earth, but when one scientist suggested that the earth moved round the sun, he was condemned for not believing the Bible. Being the truth, whatever man discovers that is true will never clash with it. The land also experienced this development of animal life, till it too became full of all kinds of creatures. No language could express so well the truth as that which God has employed as a matter of fact. May we confide not only in scripture, but in Him who gave it! Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth" (versesGenesis 11:8-9; Genesis 11:8-9). This is important as an additional proof that Gods likeness and image belong to the whole species man, and could not therefore have been lost by the fall, as St. Augustine supposed. Finally, a literal interpretation seems not only contradictory to the rest of Scripture, and unlikely, but also inappropriate, Gardener aptly observed: But our anatomy and physiology is demanded by our terrestrial habitat, and quite inappropriate to the one who inhabits eternity. For these reasons, theologians have concluded that the statement in Genesis 1:26-28 must be metaphorical of mans spiritual or immaterial nature." "Them" indicates this generic significance. But this was not Adam's state, but simply made upright, with absence and ignorance of evil. We all have a nose, we all have eyes, we all have eyebrows, we all have---well, we, most of us, have you know, some hair at least. Unfortunately, this has not been made clear enough. He designed a little wing on that seed. We'll know no weakness, no pain, no suffering. "The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." plural number as expressive of honour and majesty; since such a These words are directed not to the earth, out of which man was made, as consulting with it, and to be assisting in the formation of man, as Moses Gerundensis, and other Jewish writers F6, which is wretchedly stupid; nor to . And if natural science cannot boast that in any one of its many branches it has discovered all the phenomena connected with the animal and human organism of the existing world, how could it pretend to determine or limit the changes through which this organism may have passed in the course of thousands of years? It isn't who wrote it, it was the Holy Spirit that inspired the writing. Man's present experience would have suggested neither; yet his heart and conscience, unless rebellious, feel how right and becoming all is in such a state of things none other so good. I'm made in the image of God, who is a self-determinant being.Now, if God created me with a capacity of choice, it would be totally meaningless unless He gave me a choice. The Book of Genesis. Page #9 Study Notes on Genesis Genesis 1 Introduction to the Book of Genesis Name and theme "Genesis" means origin or beginning. Isaiah 40:26 tells us that God made the stars and calls them by name. The tremendous variety of life forms that I can see. He ceased His creative act on the seventh day. Many commentators opine that these words, "image" and "likeness," are essentially synonymous in Hebrewmeaning that human beings generally look like Godbut doing so limits God's creativity to the merely physical. In another sense man is the image of God (e.g., he rules and creates [procreates] as God does, thus reflecting God). We did not evolve from other lower forms of life. As to how, when, and why it was, there is silence. What God looks like; none of us know. By reason we apprehend concrete things in perception and consciousness, and cognize abstract truth, both metaphysical and moral. Thus, it appears from the very beginning that God is represented as a compound unity. 56. In truth only God is competent to pronounce; and this He has done. Hence, we are forced to conclude that the plural pronoun indicates a plurality of persons or hypostases in the Divine Being. This point will suffice to indicate their chief guilt in thus traversing the boundaries which God had appointed for His creatures. A person is held out the Seed of the woman; for the manner most expressly bespeaks the tender mercy of God. I don't intend to get into them. Again, as even in the present order of nature the excessive increase of the vegetable kingdom is restrained, not merely by the graminivorous animals, but also by the death of the plants themselves through the exhaustion of their vital powers; so the wisdom of the Creator could easily have set bounds to the excessive increase of the animal world, without requiring the help of huntsmen and beasts of prey, since many animals even now lose their lives by natural means, without being slain by men or eaten by beasts of prey. It is not in this connection "created," it will be observed, but "made" them. Genesis 9:25-26; Genesis 9:25-26. This, it is plain, was never lost; it abides, whatever man's state. Now, as the Divine Being is infinite, he is neither limited by parts, nor definable by passions; therefore he can have no corporeal image after which he made the body of man. But what characterises this scene is not the state in which man as such was this we had in Genesis 3:1-24 but what man did in that fallen state, and more especially what he did in presence of God and faith. The Bible speaks of the heavens and the earth as ordinary people see them from their standpoint on earth. It is not man placed in his moral relationships, but man the head of this kingdom of creation, as they say; but still even so with remarkable dignity. And what followed after it? Most appropriately it is to Jehovah now. God certainly might here command by his bare word what he wished to be done: but he chose to give this tribute to the excellency of man, that he would, in a manner, enter into consultation concerning his creation. Now what did He set the seventh day apart for? See also Bishop Patricks Commentary on this verse. Genesis 3:21) we are told, that "to Adam also and to his wife did Jehovah-Elohim make coats of skins and clothed them." The passage should be translated, "Fill the earth and subdue it."[11]. No other explanation is left, therefore, than to regard it as pluralis majestatis, - an interpretation which comprehends in its deepest and most intensive form (God speaking of Himself and with Himself in the plural number, not reverentiae causa, but with reference to the fullness of the divine powers and essences which He possesses) the truth that lies at the foundation of the trinitarian view, viz., that the potencies concentrated in the absolute Divine Being are something more than powers and attributes of God; that they are hypostases, which in the further course of the revelation of God in His kingdom appeared with more and more distinctness as persons of the Divine Being. What does He do then? Thus God declares Himself in every word He utters. On the contrary, we have all read these chapters in the Bible, and we may have read them as believers too, without seeing their immense scope and profound accuracy all at once. In the statement given by Moses every minute point beautifully exemplifies the propriety of the word of God. And I am able to recognize you and say "oh yeah that's" and the color of clothes that you're wearing and the, you know, the whole thing. (88) Synecdoche is the figure which puts a part for the whole, or the whole for a part. In conclusion, the Sabbath day, which God* sanctified, closes the great week of God's forming the earth for man, the lord of it. And perhaps this is the only view of it which renders the reasoning of Calvin intelligible. The primeval and prominent objects of human sway are here brought forward after the manner of Scripture. Alas! So God said, "let us make man in our image, after our likeness. He has made the sea his highway to the ends of the earth, the stars his pilots on the pathless ocean, the sun his bleacher and painter, the bowels of the earth the treasury from which he draws his precious and useful metals and much of his fuel, the steam his motive power, and the lightning his messenger. 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Cain brought what might have sufficed in an unfallen world what might have suited an innocent worshipper of One who was simply known as Elohim. correct. It is the old familiar story, man tried and found wanting as always. If man can discover such facts by other means, be it so. God created the rest of the universe in the first five days, and, "Then God said". God's chief governing characteristic is self determination, so he created us with the capacity of self determination. By the application of the term "good" to everything that God made, and the repetition of the word with the emphasis "very" at the close of the whole creation, the existence of anything evil in the creation of God is absolutely denied, and the hypothesis entirely refuted, that the six days' work merely subdued and fettered an ungodly, evil principle, which had already forced its way into it. But still it is well to take note that we have thus a grand basis of things as they really are a divine communication to us of facts of the utmost moment, and, at the same time, of the deepest interest to the children of God. The reason is evident. way of speaking did not obtain very early, not even till the It outlines how he brought the universe through various stages till his creative activity reached its climax in Adam and Eve. I grant that in an unfallen condition there was another state of things. What are the ten numerations? It is the great truth of sacrifice, of which Abel's faith laid hold, realising and confessing in his slain lamb that there was no other way in a ruined world for a holy relationship, and for the confession of the truth too, as between God and man. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over everything that creepeth upon the earth. Nay, more, now that it is clearly revealed, they have no competency to appreciate it never take in its force; and for this simple reason, that man invariably judges from himself and from his own experience, instead of submitting to God and His word. I can speak to you.Now, when God speaks, He doesn't necessarily need all the vocal apparatus that I have; a voice box, a larynx and a tongue and all of this. 163. what disappointment and grief, both of the most poignant kind, followed ere long For Abel too was born; and in process of time it came to pass that they brought their offerings unto "Jehovah" a term, I may observe, that is here in admirable keeping. The sixth day, as being the last, is distinguished above all the rest by the article - "a day, the sixth" (Gesenius, 111, 2a). These distinguish humans from the animals, which have no God-consciousness even though they have conscious life (cf. The condition of man was altogether different then from what it became immediately after. Proud member [Note: Henry F. Lazenby, "The Image of God: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter?" 2 He was in the beginning with God. The doctrine in systematic theology is that God's image within became corrupted and defiled; yet that even then he was not altogether forsaken; and that the course of his history declares by what means it has pleased God to renew, in some measure, His lost image, etc. Gods plurality anticipated mans plurality. All the delays of God now proceed on the fact that the first man is in sin. God gave the right of dominion over all living things to man. III. Humans were created in God's image, with the ability to cultivate and manifest qualities that God possesses, such as love, empathy, and justice. He was to represent God here below; besides this he was to be like God. The utmost possible care appears in the statement. Such is the very essence of a test for an innocent man. It is a real joy to know that it is coming; but until that day God always has before Him, as the theatre and material where He acts, a world ruined ruined by sinful man. What was the ground of God's delays in the previous time? Hitherto, it had been said, "Let there be light," and "Let there be a firmament," and "Let the earth, or waters, bring forth" such a thing; but now the word of command is turned into a word of consultation, "Let us make man, for whose sake the rest of the creatures were made: this is a work we must take into our own hands." Leave out the fall; fail to keep it before you and test all with that in mind, and you will be wrong about every result. How thrilling to be able to see the design in nature, all testifying of the wisdom of the God that I serve. God forbid that by indulging the body and the desires of it we should make ourselves like the beasts that perish! There was the whole matter. We pray, Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11), but we do not expect God to work instantaneously and drop food from heaven on to our plates. and why is thy countenance fallen? The Bible demonstrates this order of importance from the outset by fitting the story of creation into a mere week, into the opening page of a 1,000-page Bible.The Bible was never intended to be a scientific textbook. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:26-28. And so Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enos. This completes, then, the restoration of that order and fullness the absence of which is described in the second verse. "I don't want God in my life! Six years they may go into slavery, the seventh year they are set free. As for the transfer of the site of the garden lower down in the plain of Shinar, it appears to me altogether untenable. The cheaper edition published in 2010 The New Matthew Henry Commentary: The Classic Work with Updated Language is the abridged concise edition. This you can, if you will, verify in various occasions where scripture furnishes examples of the summary; as, for instance, in the beginning of Genesis 5:1-32, "This is the book of the generations of Adam." He had not before given his wife this her full and proper name. We also know that it was customary with the Hebrews to repeat the same thing in different words. That man was made in God's image and after his likeness, two words to express the same thing and making each other the more expressive; image and likeness denote the likest image, the nearest resemblance of any of the visible creatures. It has nothing to do with moral relationships. I form the sounds by the expelling of air and the movement of all of these things in coordination, so that the sounds come forth in a way, that because we have agreed that particular sounds mean particular things, I'm able to communicate intelligibly to you through sounds that I can form in my mouth. 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